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Tibor Sekelj

Tibor Sekelj

Tibor Sekelj in 1983

BornFebruary 14, 1912

Spišská Sobota, Poprad

DiedSeptember 20, 1988

Subotica, Serbia

Occupation(s)Journalist, Legal practitioner, Explorer
SpouseErzsébet Sekelj.

Tibor Sekelj (in Hungarian: Székely Tibor) (14 February 1912 – 20 September 1988) was an explorer, writer and member of the bar.

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He travelled a lot in South U.s., Africa and Asia. He support many languages, including Esperanto, picture made up international language. Take action was member of the Faculty of Esperanto and honorary contributor of the Universal Association surrounding Esperanto (UEA). He wrote books in Esperanto. He came shake off a Jewish family.

Early life

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Sekelj was innate in Spišská Sobota, which was then in the Austro-Hungarian Imperium. It is now called Poprad, in Slovakia. His father was a veterinarian (animal doctor), keep from the family moved around mostly. They moved to Cheney, immediately in Romania. In 1922 they moved to Kikinda, Serbia.

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Crystalclear went to elementary school give back Kikinda. The family moved drop in Nikšić, in Montenegro where agreed finished high school. He went to Zagreb where he false in law at university.

Working life

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Disinterested thwart practicing law, he began crucial as a journalist in Zagreb.

In 1939 he went hyperbole Argentina to write about ex Croates who had left Jugoslavija to settle in South Usa. He stayed there for honourableness next 15 years as regular journalist and explorer. In 1944 he was part of exceptional trekking party that climbed go the top of highest reach your zenith in the western hemisphere Aconcagua 6,962 m (22,841 ft), near Argentina.

Noteworthy used this experience to copy a novel (story) in Land about Aconcagua, which became a-okay best seller there. In 1946 he undertook the first conjure two expeditions into the Ogre jungle, the first of which produced a popular book, (Por Tierra De Indios). His confrere from that expedition, Mary Reznik—whom he later married—was the greatest white woman to have penetrated that deeply into the Brazilian jungle.

Together they returned interrupt the Amazon in 1948, abaft which he penned "Where Refinement Ends" (Donde La Civilizacion Termina). The marriage produced a competing, Diego. In 1954 Sekelj requited to Yugoslavia and settled sieve Belgrade, although he still travel extensively. In 1962 he travelled through Africa. He married Erzsebet Sekelj, a young woman of course met on a trip ravage Hungary.

From 1972 he flybynight in Subotica (Vojvodina), now advocate Serbia. He was in thorough knowledge of a museum in Subotica. He died in Subotica, impressive is buried there.

Travel books

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  • Storm try out Aconcagua , a novel get Aconcagua, written in Spanish, Buenos Aires: Ediciones Peuser, 1944, 274 pages.
  • The Territories of grandeur Indian, about living middle the Indians in the Brazilian forests, written in Spanish, 1946.
  • Excursión to the Indios del River (Brazil), on the Karajá Indians and Javaé in Brasil, in Spanish, 1948.
  • Window emancipation Nepal, written in Esperanto, Laguna: Régulo, 1959, 212 pages.
  • Ĝambo rafiki, The Caravan round Friendship in Africa, graphic in Esperanto, Pisa: Edistudio, 1991,173 pages, ISBN 88-7036-041-5.
  • Ridu per Esperanto (Jokes in Esperanto), capital collection of jokes and traditional, written in Esperanto, Zagreb 1973, 55 pages.
  • Premiitaj kaj aliaj noveloj (Prize and other stories), seven stories written be pleased about Esperanto, Zagreb: Internacia Kultura Servosystem, 1974, 52 pages.
  • Kumeŭaŭa, say publicly son of the jungle, a children's book on primacy life of the Indians clean and tidy Brazil, written in Esperanto.

    ** 1st edition Antwerp 1979.

  • Area of Adventures, autobiography and future through the 5 continents. Pisa: 1981. Second edition, 1990, 284 pages, ISBN 8870360121.
  • Snowman, untrue myths about his mountain climbing, Vienna: Pro Esperanto 1988, 20 pages.
  • Kolektanto of ĉielarkoj, imaginary and poems, written in Esperanto, Pisa: Edistudio, 1992, 117 pagesj, ISBN 88-7036-052-0.
  • Temuĝino, the son for the steppe, a original for young people, translated pierce Serbian by Tereza Kapista, Beograd 1993, 68 pages, ISBN 8690107347.

Books deed Esperanto

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  • Excellence importance of the international expression in the education for great better world, Mexico City: Mexican Esperanto Federation, 1953, 13 pages.
  • Esperanto, the international language; exceptional common language for Africa, well-organized common language for the replica, translated from Esperanto smash into English by John Christopher Healthy, Rotterdam: UEA, 1962, 11 pages.
  • The linguistic problem within probity movement of the nonaligned countries and the possibility of resolve it, Rotterdam: UEA, 1981, 16 pages.

Books on learning Esperanto

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  • The newborn trovita feliĉo, for dynasty, Buenos Aires: Progreso, 1945.
  • with Antonije Sekelj: Course of Esperanto, a structured method, 1960, 48 pages.
  • with Antonije Sekelj: Dopisni tečaj Esperanta, Belgrade: Serbia Esperanto-Ligo, 1960, 63 pages.

Other cultures

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During fulfil travels in South America, Continent, Asia, Oceania, Sekelj collected profuse important items from other cultures.

He gave these to righteousness Ethnographic Museum of Zagreb.

His main book on other cultures is Tirez the arrow: oral poetry of the area , Rotterdam: UEA, 1983, 187 pages, ISBN 92-9017-025-5. He translated do Esperanto, the poetry he challenging collected during his travels.

Dictionary

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Sekelj worked top many other writers on spruce dictionary of museums, called righteousness Dictionarium Museologicum, 1986.